Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 16:32:58 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r220982 - in head: . sys/amd64/conf sys/arm/conf sys/conf sys/i386/conf sys/ia64/conf sys/mips/conf sys/mips/malta sys/pc98/conf sys/powerpc/conf sys/sparc64/conf sys/sun4v/conf Message-ID: <20110424163258.GA32595@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4DB441B0.8020906@FreeBSD.org> References: <201104240858.p3O8wwqT024628@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1104241140070.36270@fledge.watson.org> <4DB441B0.8020906@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 06:28:48PM +0300, Alexander Motin wrote: > What's about creating some kind of symlinks, it could be nice if it > worked, but I don't see the way to do it on disk(9) or GEOM layers > without breaking device's access counters and as result further random > problems. Speaking on Alexander's side, I'd want to mention that many of our users had been bitten by obscure adX naming during past years (largely due to ATA_STATIC_ID option which was probably useful back in times when there typically was only one IDE controller present in system, but leads to all sorts of weird ad4-6-8's in recent years) had already migrated to glabel or GPT labels, to avoid precisely the issues we're talking about here. ./danfe
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